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title: כְּפִיר — young lion · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּפִיר (3715), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 31 times: young lion. BDB 1906: n.m. young lion. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּפִיר

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«כְּפִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **young lion** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 31 times · **Key:** 3715 · **BDB:** כְּפִיר

### Glosses

a.young.lion (10); lion (5); lions (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

young lion [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3715/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. young lion [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3715/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. young lion;—כ׳ Ju 14:5 + 16 times; pl. כְּפִרִים Je 2:15 + 3 times; כְּפִירִים Zc 11:3 + 7 times; sf. כְּפִירַיִךְ Na 2:14; כְּפִירֶיהָ Ez 38:13 (Co reads כנעניה);—lit. כ׳ אֲרָיוֹת Ju 14:5 young lion of lions; Am 3:4 ψ 17:12. It differs from whelp גּוּר Ez 19:2, 3 as old enough to hunt its prey, Je 25:38; Is 11:6; Zc 11:3; ψ 104:21; in sim. of roar of hostile army Is 5:29 (‖ לָבִיא) cf. Je 51:38 (‖ גּוֹרֵי אריות); sim. of י׳’s invincible might Is 31:4 (‖ אַרְיֵה); of Isr. among the nations, Mi 5:7; of Assyrian princes Na 2:12; of prince of Isr. Ez 19:5, 6; other cases are: ‖ לָבִיא Jb 38:39; ‖ שַׁחַל Ho 5:14 ψ 91:13 Jb 4:10; of bloodthirsty enemies ψ 34:11; 35:17; 58:7 Je 2:15; כ׳ גוים Ez 32:2, of young warriors Na 2:14; Ez 38:13 (?; v. Co supr.); righteous compared with, Pr 28:1; king’s wrath like roaring of, Pr 19:12; 20:2; of one of faces of cherubim Ez 41:19.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 31 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּפִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3715/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 4:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.10/)

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שַׁאֲגַ֣ת אַ֭רְיֵה וְק֣וֹל שָׁ֑חַל וְשִׁנֵּ֖י כְפִירִ֣ים נִתָּֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].roaring of.a.lion and.\[the\] sound of.a.lion and.\[the\] teeth of.young.lions they.are.broken.out

*JPS 1917:* The lion roareth, and the fierce lion howleth — yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

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[Job 38:39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.39/)

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הֲתָצ֣וּד לְלָבִ֣יא טָ֑רֶף וְחַיַּ֖ת כְּפִירִ֣ים תְּמַלֵּֽא׃

*Word for word:* will you.hunt? for a.lion prey and.\[the\] life of.young.lions will.you.fill?

*JPS 1917:* Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lioness? Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

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